HP says commercial software vulnerabilities down almost 20% across industry

There were 6,843 disclosed vulnerabilities in commercial software applications last year, down 19.5% from 2010. The number of software vulnerabilities reported annually appears to have peaked in 2006 at about 11,000. Chinese exploit kits are said to be competing with older exploit kits such as Phoenix, Eleonore and Blackhole. Adobe Shockwave, Apple QuickTime, HP Data Protector, Oracle Java, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Adobe Reader, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Novell iPrint and HP OpenView.”]

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